The National Hydraulic Mission — A South African Story - Episode 1

This is the first episode of a conversation between Andrew Charter and Dr Anthony Turton, water security expert and former NIS operative.The story begins not with apartheid, not with the mines, but with a road engineer travelling by ox wagon through the Northern Cape in the 1860s. What followed was a century of hydraulic engineering so consequential that it quietly underpinned everything — the coal fields, the factories, the cities, the economy itself.The infrastructure that built the nation is the same infrastructure that is now failing it.Audio only. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit arclightafrica.substack.com